Old guard Republicans warm up to Trump as Dick Cheney and Bob Dole say they’ll back the billionaire’s bid for the White House
Dick Cheney was U.S. Vice President from 2001 to 2009 and Bob Dole was the GOP’s 1996 presidential nominee
Both old-timers are hopping aboard the Trump train as gestures of party loyalty
Cheney’s boss, President George W. Bush – along with his brother Jeb and their dad George H.W. Bush – are firmly in the anti-Trump camp
So is Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina senator who, like Jeb Bush, was among Trump’s primary campaign roadkill
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, however, is endorsing The Donald and conspicuously holding the door open to accepting Trump’s VP slot
By David Martosko, Us Political Editor
Dailymail.com
6 May 2016
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and 1996 Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole are both gingerly hopping aboard the Trump train.
Cheney, 75 told CNN on Friday that he has always backed the GOP’s nominees for the White House, and this year will be no exception.
Hours later the Trump campaign released a statement from Dole, a former Kansas senator who couldn’t stop Bill Clinton’s re-election effort 20 years ago, saying he was in the same boat.
‘The voters of our country have turned out in record numbers to support Mr. Trump,’ said the 92-year-old Dole, who was also the Republican National Committee chairman in the 1970s.
‘It is important that their votes be honored and it is time that we support the party’s presumptive nominee.’
‘We must unite as a party to defeat Hillary Clinton,’ Dole added.
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